A Flexible SoPC-based Fault Injection Environment

Analyzing the behavior of ICs faced to soft errors is now mandatory, even for applications running at sea level, to prevent malfunctions in critical applications such as automotive. This paper introduces a novel prototyping-based fault injection environment that enables to perform several types of dependability analyses in a common optimized framework. The approach takes advantage of hardware speed and of software flexibility offered by embedded processors to achieve optimized trade-offs between experiment duration and processing complexity. The repartition of tasks between hardware and embedded software is defined with respect to the type of circuit to analyze